Peremptorical Historical

What Is Peremptorical History?

Once upon a time, (time, time) before the empire (and the crime) Africa was, and was so unpressed that they did not depart their verdant shores in search of prosperity, because, lo! They prospered.

But then, children, came the Interruption. The Interlopers.

When colonisers arrived in Africa, they didn't just conquer land, steal and subjugate peoples. Good heavens and bless your heart! No.

They rewrote history. They claimed:

• Africans built nothing (Great Zimbabwe attributed to Phoenicians)

• Africans invented nothing (Egyptian mathematics credited to Greeks)

• Africans knew nothing (Timbuktu's universities ignored)

• Africans contributed nothing (except labour) - No, they were tabula rasas as was their land that had waited for millennia in stillness, lacking inspiration and a clue, waiting to be discovered in the 1400s. Yay!!!

This became textbook history. University curriculum. Accepted fact. The lie was so complete that even questioning it seemed absurd. The burden of proof shifted: Africans now had to PROVE they built their own cities, created their own systems, possessed their own knowledge.

This is Peremptorical history: the imperial lie that became baseline truth. So, ooooh, this became imperial history, the version written by conquerors, taught in schools, published in textbooks, and accepted as fact.

But there was history BEFORE the empire rewrote it.

That history - the record that existed before colonial distortion - is peremptorical history.

The Difference

Imperial History says:

• "Africa has no written records" (ignoring Ge'ez, Nsibidi, Adinkra, Meroitic, Vai, Tifinagh)

• "Africa had no cities" (ignoring Great Zimbabwe, Benin City, Timbuktu, Aksum, Kilwa)

• "Africa had no governance systems" (ignoring the Songhai civil service, Kemet's bureaucracy, Kongo's provincial administration)

• "Africa had no philosophy" (ignoring Ma'at, Ubuntu, Iwa Pele, Nommo)

Corrective History says:

• Africa wrote in multiple scripts for thousands of years

• Africa built stone cities at extraordinary scale

• Africa developed sophisticated governance systems, managing millions

• Africa produced philosophical frameworks 2,000 years before Europe

One is propaganda. One is evidence.

The Lie That Became History

Peremptorical history is the imperial version; it is the "because we say so" narrative that invisibilised Africa, misattributed African achievement, and rewrote the record so thoroughly that even the liars believed themselves.

Peremptorical = peremptory + historical

Peremptory: commanding, decisive, not open to appeal, "because I say so"

Peremptorical history is what happens when a lie becomes so comprehensive, so load-bearing to an entire civilisational project, that its architects begin to believe it themselves.

Not propaganda (propaganda knows it's lying).
Not revisionism (revisionism acknowledges there was something to revise).

Peremptorical history is a hatred so profound it auto-scams itself into sincerity.

But, notice children, what's really happening! They didn't just lie to us. They lied to themselves first — with such conviction, such architectural commitment to untruth, that they eventually lost the thread back to what they buried.

How Peremptorical History Operated

The Erasure Protocol:

Step 1: Invisibilisation
African achievement rendered invisible. Great Zimbabwe? "Mysterious ruins." Timbuktu's universities? Ignored. Benin's sophistication? Hidden.

Step 2: Misattribution
When invisibilization failed, reassign credit. Great Zimbabwe too sophisticated? Say Phoenicians built it. Egyptian mathematics too advanced? Credit the Greeks. African metallurgy? Claim European origin.

Step 3: Alien Intervention
When misattribution became absurd, invoke aliens. Pyramids? Extraterrestrials. Dogon astronomy? Ancient astronauts. Anything rather than admit Africans built, knew, engineered.

Step 4: Ahistoricity
The final move: declare Africa had no history at all. Hegel: "Africa is no historical part of the world." The lie became philosophy.

Why It Matters Now

Because you can't correct what you don't name.

Everyone knows "colonial history was biased." That's vague. That's forgettable.

Peremptorical history is precise. It names the mechanism. It shows the architecture of the lie.

And once you name it, you can dismantle it.

What We're Correcting

Afrodeities exists to correct peremptorical history with evidence:

Peremptorical said: Africa had no mathematics
Corrective shows: The Ishango bone, Egyptian geometry, Yoruba Ifa binary systems

Peremptorical said: Africans couldn't build in stone
Corrective shows: Great Zimbabwe, pyramids, Lalibela, Aksum

Peremptorical said: Africa had no writing
Corrective shows: Ge'ez, Nsibidi, Adinkra, Meroitic, Vai, Tifinagh

Peremptorical said: Africa had no philosophy
Corrective shows: Ma'at, Ubuntu, Iwa Pele, Nommo

Peremptorical said: Africa was ahistorical
Corrective shows: Griot traditions carrying 700 years of accurate history, manuscripts in Timbuktu, Egyptian records

Why "Peremptorical" Matters

Because "pre-colonial" is not enough. "Pre-colonial" suggests African history only matters in relation to colonialism, as if Africa's story begins when Europeans arrive.

Peremptorical centres African time. The history that came FIRST. The achievements that existed BEFORE distortion. The knowledge that predates the lie.

This is not "discovering" African history. This is recovering it.

How We Recover Peremptorical History

1. Archaeology Physical evidence colonisers couldn't destroy: pyramids, walls, cities, tools, and astronomical alignments

2. Manuscripts 700,000+ documents in Timbuktu, Egyptian papyri, Ethiopian codices, proving African scholarship

3. Oral Tradition Griot lineages carrying 700+ years of accurate genealogy, law, and history

4. Comparative Mythology: African cosmological frameworks encoding governance, science, and ethics

5. Diaspora Continuities Knowledge systems that survived slavery and rebuilt themselves (proving they existed BEFORE rupture)

6. Linguistic Analysis: African language structures revealing philosophical frameworks predating contact

The 'Peremptorical' Correctives

Afrodeities documents peremptorical history across:

The Bridgeworks: 12-component framework showing African civilisational architecture

Corrective Articles: Evidence-based research restoring pre-imperial record

Books: Nigerian mythology as peremptorical knowledge system

Visual Collections: Sacred Geometry proving African mathematical sophistication

Pillar Pages: Comprehensive documentation of systems that predate colonial narrative

The Work Ahead

Peremptorical history is not dead. It persists in:

• Textbooks still teaching "Africa had no civilizations"

• Museums hiding African achievement

• Popular culture erasing African sophistication

• AI trained on peremptorical data

Correcting peremptorical history requires:

• Documentation (the Codex)

• Education (teaching the truth)

• Institutional change (rewriting curriculum)

• Technological intervention (MythOS correcting AI bias)

This is the work. This is why Afrodeities exists.

Start Here

Understanding Peremptorical History:

• UnBlacking Africa: The Erasure Protocol

• The Lies We Were Taught

• Why Hegel Was Wrong

The Correctives:

• Corrective African and Black History

• If Africa Ruled The World

• African Civilisational History

• African Time — The Nile Calibration

• Mathfrica — Mathematics Before Greece

• African Civilisational Architecture

• Ifa Divination — Binary Code Before Leibniz

• Great Zimbabwe — Engineering Before Attribution

The empire wrote its version. We're restoring what came first.

Peremptorical history is the lie.
Corrective history is the truth.
Now you know what we're fixing.